Today I shall be Mainly...

[Stanley]

I sometimes have days like that Sue. My answer is to go to bed!
You're right about the showers, not often I get caught, I'm too old a dog for that, but I got caught in one yesterday but not quite as bad as yours!

[plaques]

learnt my lesson some years ago. When you feel tired stop! Especially if its intricate work or brain work that needs a bit of care about it. Having said that late last night I set off to backup some programme files I'd done, what a mess I got into. We never learn

[Sue]

Buttonhole sort of unpicked, enough to sew over the top with a bigger buttonhole then the new stitches should hide where I tore the fabric! Busy day at art and writing, I feel tired now. Usually the yoga revitalises me. Fingers crossed!

[Stanley]

Sue. As my dad always said "A drunken man on a galloping horse wouldn't notice it". Round here the version is "They'll never see it off the Ribble".
Butcher's Day today and some casting hunting on the web I think.

[chinatyke]

Sue. As my dad always said "A drunken man on a galloping horse wouldn't notice it". Round here the version is "They'll never see it off the Ribble".
Butcher's Day today and some casting hunting on the web I think.

Something has just struck me: Is that the Ribble bus? I've always thought of it as meaning the River Ribble.

[Stanley]

Yup China, the saying refers to passing bus passengers.

[Sue]

My goodness the rain yesterday evening and last night! The pond with the leak is as full as it has ever been! The pounding kept me awake during the night.

I am not going to craft today. I shall do the remnants of washing, redo my buttonhole and pack for France. We shall of course have our Friday lunch out but will be eating local. Our eating buddies are on holiday in Majorca for the week. Their weather forecast is 26 by day with cold nights. Ours in France is 15 with rain. The long range forecast a week ago was 20 degrees and dry but it has changed. It has time to change again.

[Marilyn]

Our saying is "a blind man would like to see it".

[chinatyke]

Yup China, the saying refers to passing bus passengers.

Funny how I've only just seen that, I genuinely thought it was the river!

[Tripps]

I genuinely thought it was the river!

So did I last time I saw it. I was puzzled - but no longer.

Would anyone under the age of say 30, in the town know what you meant if you said Ribble ?

[chinatyke]

...Or Standerwick?

[PanBiker]

Probably not. When I first started work before I got my first motorbike, top deck of the Ribble used to be my choice for the trip to Burnley College over the tops. BCN, (they wouldn't know that either) for the bus to work in Earby.

[Tizer]

Living in Blackburn as a child I was on and off their green-and-cream double deckers nearly every day, in to town and back - sometimes twice a day. We almost never used the red Ribble buses. To me they some form of exotic transport for the toffs who lived in the country!

[plaques]

We're starting to sound like Monty Python's 'Four Yorkshiremen'. The Ribble buses, luxury, they had heaters in them. Pick the right seats and you could almost nod off. PanBiker. I can only remember the single deckers travelling the top road. They would just about get round the sharp Z bend at Fanny Greys. My pal, who knew the road, don't they all, jambed his motorbike between the wall and the bus one night. Result, road closed for an hour.

[Tripps]

Not to mention the grandly named North Western Road Car Company from Stanley's home town of Stockport.

[Stanley]

I think Ribble only used the White Ladies on the X43 Southport to Manchester route.
North Western never went in for luxury. Wooden seats and low bridge versions of double deckers.
We had a lot of rain here as well Sue. Susan said they were on flood alert in Earby yesterday, she said David Whipp was there in his day-glo suit.It ceased at dinnertime and I think they got away with it.
Today I shall buy a reflective aid Wendy for early morning walks.

[Cathy]

In 1962/3 my Grandma took me by bus (from Barnoldswick) to the Bradford Eye and Ear Hospital for an operation on my eyes.

Which bus would we have taken to get there?

[Stanley]

I think that would be Laycocks from Barlick to Skipton and I'm not sure about onwards from Skipton. At that time there was a lot of amalgamation of bus companies going on and I have an idea that Ribble had taken over a lot of the services so it would either have been Ribble or West Yorkshire traction from Skipton on. I could be wrong of course, Bradford Corporation might have been running into Skipton.

[PanBiker]

Going to see Isla May over at Silsden, it's her birthday and she has reached the double figures of 10 years old. Our Carla has made her a Smartie cake, (can't wait).

[Stanley]

Not sure yet! I know there is veggie cooking to do and I have a feeling I have forgotten something, whatever it is, if it exists it will come to me!
Wendy, couldn't find anything high-viz in Barlick so I ordered a reflective harness on Amazon, it arrives tomorrow by post.

[Sue]

We are still in Coventry having a brew. Bob and Briony are doing a jigsaw. Eve is at a swimming gala with Julia and Ed is on his way back from taking them. Washing done, ironing done, casserole for lunch in the oven, bedrooms tidied yesterday amidst a few grunts from grand daughters and the kids bookcase tidied. What else can I do to relieve the Sunday evening stress after everyone has been busy out and about with weddings and swimming galas. I remember those swimming gala weekends very well.

Julia says the M6 is badly flooded in places and to take care on our way to the ferry this afternoon. At least there is next to no wind for the crossing. The forecast for the week is poor. It will be a wellie gardening week.

[Tripps]

Washing done, ironing done, casserole for lunch in the oven,

Exemplary - me ? I've just got up and made a mug of tea.

[Tizer]

...My pal, who knew the road, don't they all, jambed his motorbike between the wall and the bus one night. Result, road closed for an hour.

If it happened now it would be `road closed all day' while they searched for forensic evidence of liability!

Does anyone remember Weardens' coaches which had a big garage near Lion Brewery in Blackburn? We used them for our Wakes weeks visits to Blackpool. I can still remember the time we had to take a back seat on the outward journey and I was sick as we went through Preston!

[Sue]

Washing done, ironing done, casserole for lunch in the oven,

Exemplary - me ? I've just got up and made a mug of tea.

Exemplary No! When I went to empty the washer after the first load no washing powder had gone in! Well it was only our pillow slips and the girls school shirts and a few bits and pieces. It was the second load that really need to WASH. I do not claim responsibility , there were traces of powder in the RHS of the powder drawer and Briony, aged 7 , assured me it was the right side. As I spooned the powder over to the other side I decided to keep quiet about this one!

I forgot we also did the homework supervision, the nature collection and the reading. We finished the jigsaw before we left. We are now at the ferry drinking a well deserved lager.

[Stanley]

We are now at the ferry drinking a well deserved lager.
That'll be a rest after your spell on guard!
Enjoying a pedicure courtesy of daughter Susan. I shall have an Epsom Salts soak first!